You can lead a cat to water ...

I purchased a Brita water filter pitcher last month and have been giving the cats filtered water. I have a well on my property and the water is pretty tasty but I figured it might still be good to filter my water since we have had so much rain and there is a cow farm right above me.

Ever since I started giving the cats the filtered water they have been drinking more water, enough so that I noticed. Yesterday I noticed and realized I had not filled their water dish since probably Monday and it was still pretty full.

Rewind back to Monday when I was getting ready for the storm of the century. I had filled a bucket with water and also a new plastic dish pan with clean water to flush the toilets in case the power went out.

This morning while I was getting ready for work I noticed Buddy going into the bathroom. I sneaked up behind him, peeked in the bathroom and there he was drinking the water from the dish pan full of clean water that was still on the floor. At this point I am just cracking up and Buddy is going what's so funny??? Then I realized the dish pan was only about half as full as it was before the storm (I never needed it to flush toilets).

I also give my cats filtered water but they seem to want plain old tap water. Every time I use the kitechen or bathroom sink, Rory jumps in and tries to lick up the water. Now I fill some of their water bowls with tap water and yes they do drink from them. Even if there's plenty of water in their bowls, I do dump out the water every morning, clean the water bowls, and then fill them up with fresh water. I tried water fountains in the past and some would use it and some wouldn't. Then my RB Sunny decided to play in it and there was water every where. I've noticed that Rory and Radar like to play in the water so I won't be trying out any more fountains any time soon.

I also give my cats filtered water but they seem to want plain old tap water. Every time I use the kitechen or bathroom sink, Rory jumps in and tries to lick up the water. Now I fill some of their water bowls with tap water and yes they do drink from them. Even if there's plenty of water in their bowls, I do dump out the water every morning, clean the water bowls, and then fill them up with fresh water. I tried water fountains in the past and some would use it and some wouldn't. Then my RB Sunny decided to play in it and there was water every where. I've noticed that Rory and Radar like to play in the water so I won't be trying out any more fountains any time soon.

Awwww, orange kitties! I was just thinking and talking to Cassie about you! And Pearl, Ziggy and Sky too, of course

I have noticed that right after I clean her water bowl and refill it, that is when she comes right over to drink. She cracks me up with the way she drinks... lap lap lap (swallow), lap lap lap lap lap (swallow), lap lap (swallow). She also drinks sometimes after she eats, so I find bits of her food in her water dish. Then she gives me the "Staff, take care of this" meow.

I've been Boo'd... right off the stage!

Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!

"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas

Eddie is my water weirdo. (okay - he has a few other quirks as well...) He waits outside the shower until I am done. Then we exchange and he goes in the shower stall where he licks and licks and licks.

He also likes the glass on my nightstand. He jumps up on the bed, annouces himself (regardless if I am still awake and reading or if it is 3:00 am and I am sound asleep.) He then puts his bum in my face and has the longest drink you can imagine.

The other night I forgot to bring a glass to bed. He jumped up and was very perturbed by the absence of a glass. Dutifully, I went and got it for him.

He also likes the glass on my nightstand. He jumps up on the bed, annouces himself (regardless if I am still awake and reading or if it is 3:00 am and I am sound asleep.) He then puts his bum in my face and has the longest drink you can imagine.

The other night I forgot to bring a glass to bed. He jumped up and was very perturbed by the absence of a glass. Dutifully, I went and got it for him.

And yes...they have a fountain he also uses.

Sara, you have just described part of Fister's routine here, he does the same and sometimes he knocks my glasses on the floor when he jumps down. I too have forgot to bring his glass of water and when I realize, off I go and get one. Oh yes, they do have us trained well.

"I don't know which weapons will be used in the third World war, but in the fourth, it will be sticks and stones" --- Albert Einstein.

Toilet bowl kitties??? Well, it might be okay as long as you don't have any cleaners or disinfectants that dispense when you flush. I put the Clorox bleach tabs in the tank, so the bowl gets a fresh dose of bleach with each flush.
My son's cats must have the water in the sink in my grandson's bathroom left on a slow drip - even tho they always have fresh water in their bowl.
Cats!!!!!

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Wolfy ~ Fuzzbutt #3

My little dog ~ a heartbeat at my feet

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RIP 2/28/1999~10/9/2012

Myndi the Fuzzbutt - Mom's DOTD - Everyday
RIP 1/24/1996~8/9/2013

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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1

The clock of life is wound but once and no man has the power
To know just when the hands will stop - on what day, or what hour.
Now is the only time you have, so live it with a will -
Don't wait until tomorrow - the hands may then be still.
~~~~true author unknown~~~~

Eddie is my water weirdo. (okay - he has a few other quirks as well...) He waits outside the shower until I am done. Then we exchange and he goes in the shower stall where he licks and licks and licks.

He also likes the glass on my nightstand. He jumps up on the bed, annouces himself (regardless if I am still awake and reading or if it is 3:00 am and I am sound asleep.) He then puts his bum in my face and has the longest drink you can imagine.

The other night I forgot to bring a glass to bed. He jumped up and was very perturbed by the absence of a glass. Dutifully, I went and got it for him.

Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!

"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas